We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind

As the contributors to this volume illustrate

These conversations both inform and engage at a moment when their messages could not be more urgent

The family invites their neighbors to join in the feast

the brilliant political strategist and tribal leader of the first half of the twentieth century

A Council of Dolls rice We Are the Land isThe long awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of